Overcoming Limits

Limits and difficulties are among the most important tools in life to improve. I can see how they’ve been with us since we were children.

I discovered how different people’s life experiences can be depending on their point of view.

My inner journey as a person and an artist has led me to discover the most fascinating aspect of humanity: how uniquely different we are from one another. It’s wonderful, but also scary, when we can’t use our comfortable and familiar point of view to understand other people’s feelings, and when others don’t understand us, creating an environment conducive to a strong sense of loneliness.

There are so many limits we have to overcome every day, so many difficulties we have to face from one minute to the next, that the results can look so natural, like when you see a person walking and you never stop to think that once they couldn’t even sit by themselves as babies.

I can see the progress of my art after many years and how it is merged with my inner life, but other people surely can’t see how I became the person I am today, to make the art I make today. So that’s where I like to say that nothing falls from the sky, we shouldn’t take anything for granted, and everything you see of a person today is just the tip of the iceberg.

I often stop to look at where I have come from, where I am and how far I am from where I want to be in the next step. I especially like to think about how much the difficulties were the real fuel that pushed me to where I am now, so that I don’t have regrets, even though I didn’t choose many of the experiences I’ve had, I also know that the result of all of this is who I am today.

Comunication

For me, communication was a really difficult thing to do because my point of view was that of a neuro-diverse person. It was imperative for me to find a way to be accepted and to be able to express emotions to the people around me, it has been a long journey of accepting suffering and dispelling toxicity of states of mind that come from that suffering. 

This has given me the opportunity to develop emotional intelligence, to connect with friends, to empathise with those who have caused me great pain in my existence, and only recently to begin to experience the mining of ‘family’. The practice of mindfulness certainly played a big role in this.

There are still things I can’t express in my research on spirituality, if not through my art, such as the feeling that dreams and reality are the same thing. Art and spirituality blend together in my mindset; I see how it’s all about discovering the truth within.

We live in a world that doesn’t always seem to fit us. This is true for the most unconventional people, such as myself, as well as those who try to fit into shoes that are too small for them.

Diversity is an important concept that I try to convey through my artwork, as it demonstrates that each individual is a universe in and of themselves.

These universes may appear so disparate that communication and understanding appear impossible, but I believe that we humans have many other ways to communicate besides speaking: music, painting, writing, presence, listening, support, love and so on.

Through my art, I aim to evoke emotions and provoke thought, inviting viewers to reflect on their own inner growth and find inspiration in the world around them.